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Juan Xavier House, is a two-room adobe building located along El Callejón, on the edge of a mesquite bosque within the Fort Lowell Historic Preservation Zone in Tucson, Arizona. Built in the early to mid-20th century, the house exemplifies late traditional Sonoran farmhouse or ranch architecture, a vernacular style prevalent in Northern Mexico ...
The house has an approximate total area of 197 m², [D 1] comprising 112 m² of living space and 85 m² of a service courtyard arranged in a U-shaped configuration around a storage area. [ C 1 ] The house's layout is not geometrically perfect; however, the spaces are distributed evenly between two parts.
The 13-room adobe was built in a T-shape with a courtyard. The living room and master bedroom were located at the stem of the T, and the adobe also had four more bedrooms, a dining room, kitchen, storeroom, tienda (or store), and storage chambers. [2] [4] The kitchen was located at the north end of the T, close to the outdoor oven (or "horno"). [5]
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The Adobe team typed a description of each state’s essence and how it might be captured in a gingerbread house and the application gave an image for each of the 50 states.
A bungalow court is a style of small housing development which features several small, usually detached houses arranged around a central garden or yard. The bungalow court was created in Pasadena, California , in 1909 and was the predominant form of multi-family housing in Southern California from the 1910s through the 1930s.
In 1953 the State of California acquired the Avila Adobe as part of the El Pueblo de Los Angeles State Historic Park. Mrs. Sterling remained in the house until her death in 1963. The 1971 Sylmar earthquake caused major damage to the adobe, and the house was closed to tours until a $120,000 and five-year restoration could be completed.